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Lunch Seminar in presence Ivan Miroshnychenko IMD
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Lunch Seminar in presence
Ivan Miroshnychenko
IMD Lausanne, Switzerland
Abstract:
To explore how family firms approach AI, we adopt a social capital perspective and combine inductive qualitative and deductive quantitative research into a mixed-methods design. In the first step, we conducted a multiple case study of eight firms consisting of rich data from 112 interviews and archival documents. While the case evidence shows that strong external network ties with suppliers, customers, and competitors help overcome the challenges related to AI technologies, we reveal opposing implications of passive and active family involvement. Interestingly, our qualitative insights emphasize a negative moderation effect for passive family ownership exacerbating the challenges with AI, whereas we observe a positive moderation effect for active family management facilitating AI adoption. In the second step, we tested this conceptual model. Based on large-scale data from 1,444 firms, we find empirical support that increasing strengths of external network ties with suppliers, customers, and competitors drive AI adoption. Moreover, we find support for the opposing roles of passive family ownership as a negative and active family management as a positive moderator on the relationship between supplier ties on the one hand and AI adoption on the other.
Ivan Miroshnychenko is a Research Fellow and Term Research Professor of Family Business and Sustainability at IMD. Prior to joining IMD, he has held research positions and professorships at universities and research institutions in the United Kingdom (Lancaster University), Germany (WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Free University of Berlin, and Humboldt University of Berlin), Sweden (Linnaeus University) and Italy (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, and Free University of Bozen-Bolzano). He carries out research on the economics and management of family businesses and sustainability, with a focus on how to manage growth dynamics, nurture environmental champions, and design successful family-business governance mechanisms.
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Date e orari
giovedì 7 Novembre 2024
Dalle 12:15 alle 13:45
Luogo
Politecnico di Milano, Campus Bovisa - Edificio BL26/B, aula 0.19
Via R. Lambruschini 4/B, Milano
Organizzatore
Politecnico di Milano